Leftism – Daniel Secomb – Bible Teacherhttp://www.danielsecomb.com
Bringing you fresh insights from God's Word.Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:04:20 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.936770340Karl Marx’s Posthumous War On Americahttp://www.danielsecomb.com/karl-marxs-posthumous-war-on-america/
http://www.danielsecomb.com/karl-marxs-posthumous-war-on-america/#respondTue, 03 Jul 2018 08:44:27 +0000http://www.danielsecomb.com/?p=515This year, it’s been 200 years since Karl Marx came into the world on the 5th of May 1818, yet in 2018, he has never been so popular.

At the time of his death you would be forgiven for thinking that his influence would be relegated to the dustbin of history, considering that only 9 people turned up at his funeral. Yet, two centuries later he is celebrated by the press, championed by mainstream politicians and the dominant figure on our university campuses.

Four years ago, Rolling Stone magazine audaciously published the article “Marx Was Right: Five Surprising Ways Karl Marx Predicted 2014”, then four years later followed up with the infamous hit piece from the New York Times entitled, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!”. Both of these articles, although aberrant to conservatives, seemed to chime with the contemporary leanings of American culture to the left.

Last year, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of the UK Labour Party described Karl Marx as a “great economist”, and earlier this year, Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission attended a celebration marking the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth while delivering ‘an impassioned speech praising the legacy of the German philosopher’.

In Western academia, you would be hard pressed to find a university that isn’t teaching Marx’s political doctrine within their humanities department. In America, books on America’s Founding Fathers and classical Western literature are out, and books on Marxist philosophers and thinkers are in.

How did the man behind the political philosophy that led to the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century, become the most celebrated posthumous political figure in the 21st century?

Well, this was certainly not achieved by his own merit, but via millions of his devoted followers. Despite what history has demonstrated, these disciples of Marx were undeterred and enamoured with his utopian vision of a classless, egalitarian society.

Despite the many set backs, two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, there are more socialist/communist countries in the world today than there ever has been, with more socialist/communist party members in the world today than there ever has been.

Even in the most freest, pro-capitalist nation in the world — the United States — we find enormous support for Socialist policies, especially from the Democrat Party. So much so, that one of the front runners in the lead up to the Democrat Party presidential primary nomination was Bernie Sanders, an avowed “Democratic Socialist”. In fact, if it wasn’t for Hillary Clinton rigging the primary results, it would’ve been Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist that would’ve contested the Presidential election with Donald Trump in 2016.

Last week, we saw Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year old socialist, secure an upset victory in the Democratic primary in New York. She is a card carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and advocates for open borders, abolishing ICE, gun control, universal income and expansion of Medicare into a universal healthcare system.

If you haven’t been sleeping under a rock, you would have noticed that America is in the midst of a colossal culture war between the conservative right and the “progressive” liberal (Marxist) left, that only seems to be intensifying with each passing year. How on earth did it come to this?

What we are seeing happening in America now, is the result of 60 years of hard-fought political action by a tiny minority of very well organized radical activists. To explain how and why it happened, one must first examine political history from over a hundred years ago, beginning with Karl Marx.

In 1848, Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote the book “The Communist Manifesto”, in which he said that in order for the revolution to come, there must first be ‘class warfare’. He encouraged class warfare by getting the “proletariat” (working-class people) to rise up against the privileged “bourgeoisie” (the well-off capitalist class who owned most of society’s wealth and means of production). He was basically pitting the ‘oppressed’ verses ‘the oppressor’, by instilling a mentality of victimhood in the ‘oppressed’ (the proletariats).

In neo-Marxist theory (aka Cultural Marxism) class warfare is substituted for minority group warfare. This was a stroke of genius, as people would never fight for their class, but they would fight over their culture, especially if it was tied up in their identity.

This deviation from traditional Marxist theory was the brainchild of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci, further developed by Hungarian Communist György Lukács and then weaponized and exported to America’s leading universities via Herbert Marcuse and other academics from the Frankfurt School.

The proletariat (working class) has been replaced by the minority groups (LGBT, feminists, BLM, Islam, etc.) and the bourgeoisie (ruling class) has been replaced by the established social norms of Western society (the nuclear family, the white race, Christianity, etc).

The Left want massive centralized state power (in other words, BIG government) in order to force equality to all aspects of society. They can get government to expand via two ways. Firstly, they achieve it by creating victims, who look to a leftist government for their rights; and secondly, they achieve it by creating chaos in society by breaking down the family and the government expands by default to clean up the mess.

Let’s look firstly at their strategy in creating victims.

Marxist “equality” is a loaded term that is a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing. On the surface it appears to offer “fairness” and “social justice”, but in reality is nefarious ploy to get people to lobby the government to grant them “rights” and “special privileges” (rights and privileges that are usually invented out of thin air) and hence government expands in the process. Marxists understand that the only way possible for “equality” to be implemented onto a society is if government is empowered to do it.

They know full well, that if they can create victims, rub the sore red by aggravating the so-called “injustice” of their victimhood, and then preach that only they can provide the solution to their injustice, the victims will always look to them for giving them the so-called “rights” they crave and will vote LEFT for life.

When the majority of people in a society all look to the government for “rights” and “privileges”, the individual freedom ebbs away and society inevitably heads toward enslavement. Consequently, as Reagan said, “As government expands, freedom contracts.” and hence freedom is sacrificed on the altar of “equality”. And inevitably, as Paul Kersey puts it, “When equality is considered the greatest goal of a nation state, it won’t be a nation state for long.”

Secondly, they achieve their strategy by creating chaos in society and then government must expand as a solution to the chaos—and what no better chaos than by exacerbating the breakdown of the family unit.

Breaking down the family unit was a primary goal in Marxist strategy. Marriage was “private prostitution”, wrote Marx. Engels called for the abolition of the family, and the collective rearing of children, describing a wife as “a slave of (her husband’s) lust and a mere instrument for the production of children”.

This anti-family ideology was adopted with gusto by the post-revolutionary Soviets who passed decrees in 1917, which made divorce easy, recognized only civil marriages, abolished shared family property and banned adoption. In 1918 courts took over parental rights. “True liberation of women, true Communism comes about only when the masses rise up … against … small-scale households,” wrote Lenin in 1919.

Unfortunately, you will find these ideas in every feminism and gender studies course in American universities today. But you probably won’t find their real-life consequences, which were catastrophic for Russian society.

And what better way to destroy the family unit than by indoctrinating impressionable young people into the LGBT lifestyle. Radical LGBT indoctrination is now sold on the lie of being “Sex Ed” in American public schools, yet the true goal is to indoctrinate them into the LGBT lifestyle, destroy the bond between the child and his/her parents and ultimately breakdown the patriarchal family unit, which they utterly despise. Of course, government has to expand in its powers to pick up the pieces of destroyed families and socially dysfunctional individuals. They create the chaos, then they step in as a solution to the chaos.

Capturing America’s educational institution was one of the top priorities of the cultural Marxists during the 1950’s and 60’s, and now 70 years later, you will be hard pressed to find one conservative on the faculty of any college in America. Political commentator Dinesh D’Souza echoed this concern when he said, “Today, there are probably more Marxists on the faculty of our elite colleges than there are in all of Russia and Eastern Europe.” And as of late last year, a poll found that nearly half of American millennials (44 percent) would rather live in a socialist society than a capitalist one.

Consequentially, millennials have come to hate American culture, patriotism, free enterprise, marriage, the tradition family, Christianity, and are so utterly focused upon only one thing: themselves. This is why it should not take us by surprise that a full-blown socialist government will be inevitable within the next ten to fifteen years — and it was all purposeful, all intentional, all planned.

The leading Marxists and LGBT activists understand full well that their plan is to radically transform American society to the point where sex, gender and language are completely redefined. And yet, in doing so, have created a society intensely hostile to Christians. Christians in America are increasingly finding it difficult to live out their faith in the public square.

Christians are being hounded out of business, hounded off college campuses, hounded off the sports field, hounded out of the media, hounded out of the military — and heaven forbid — even hounded out of the church. There has never been a time in America when Christianity has been so much under attack.

Yet, the great chasm between conservatives and liberals is only going to get more polarized in the days ahead. Currently, liberals are demonizing Christians, but the time will soon come when they will go from demonizing them to dehumanizing them. Then persecution is going to get very real and personal.

So how did America get here? If there was ever a Bible verse appropriate for America right now, it would be Hosea 13:5-6. “I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat. When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.”

America has forgotten its rich Christian heritage and history. It has replaced the God of the Bible for the god of mammon. It has substituted the justice of Moses for the social justice of Marx. It has rejected objective moral values in favor of political correctness. And now, tragically, it is scorning the American Revolution in favor of a socialist revolution.

Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn summed up the primary reason for the human carnage wrought by the Soviets which he had witnessed first hand. He said, “More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened. Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”

No matter how much we would like to see America become ‘great again’, it will never happen if it remains unrepentant. The degree to which America becomes great again is directly proportionate to its willingness to repent. Alexis de Tocqueville once said, “America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

How right he was — as Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.”

I consider myself to be optimistic in my outlook, however, I do not see America’s future boding well if it continues in the current trajectory (see short video segment below). My sentiment echoes that of Thomas Jefferson who said, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

The great British historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee said, “Of the twenty-two civilisations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”

I believe Billy Graham was right in his assessment of the moral condition of the United States when he said, “If God were to excuse America for her sins, he would have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Billy Graham’s son, Franklin, also echoed this sentiment when he said, “As a nation we’ve become desensitized to the value of human life. That’s also evidenced in the 60 million children whose lives have been ended through abortion in this country since 1973. My prayer is that America will wake up before it’s too late—God’s judgment is coming.”

Will America be judged by God wholesale? Yes and no. I believe parts of America will bear the brunt of God’s judgment while other parts will be spared. That said, we cannot escape the reality that America is going to face chastisement. Yet, we must never lose sight of the bigger picture. America’s fall—whether it be suddenly or gradually—would be a major event in allowing end times scenarios to proceed.

When we see these things happen, no matter how discouraging it looks in the natural, we need to stand up and lift up our heads, because our redemption is drawing near.

This article is an excerpt taken from Daniel Secomb’s up-and-coming new book The Politics of the Last Days.

]]>http://www.danielsecomb.com/karl-marxs-posthumous-war-on-america/feed/0515Subversion: How a Change of Tactic Helped the Left and Islam Capture the Westhttp://www.danielsecomb.com/subversion-how-a-change-of-tactic-helped-the-left-and-islam-capture-the-west/
http://www.danielsecomb.com/subversion-how-a-change-of-tactic-helped-the-left-and-islam-capture-the-west/#respondWed, 31 May 2017 15:59:00 +0000http://www.danielsecomb.com/?p=472You’re going to have to hand it to the Islamists. Their change of tactic to defeat the West has been a masterstroke of genius.

Islam’s initial tactic of military confrontation with the West came to a grinding halt at the Gates of Vienna in 1683. Had the Muslim armies prevailed, they stood to overrun Christian Europe and the entire continent would’ve become part of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

However, the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood under the leadership of Hassan al-Banna in 1922 would breath new life into the ambitions of Islam to dominate the West. Acknowledging their inability to confront the West via military means, they sought a change of strategy which would prove to be nothing short of brilliant. The Muslim Brotherhood laid out a plan of infiltrating the West from within via what can be described as a “cultural jihad”.

The father of ‘Cultural Jihad’ Hassan al-Banna.

In an official document uncovered by federal investigators in 2004, the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic goals for North America was chillingly outlined from a meeting held by the organization in 1991. Here is a short excerpt:

“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…” (p.7)

Their plan is a grass-roots approach in slowly infiltrating Western society by undermining its institutions and cultural centres of influence and using the West’s liberal ideals such as freedom of speech, tolerance, inclusivity against itself—and two decades later, their success has been unprecedented.

The father of ‘Cultural Marxism’ Antonio Gramsci

Ironically, this is the exact same strategy deployed by the Left. Karl Marx’s original goal of confronting the West by military means failed with the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, Marxism never went away with the demise of the Soviet Union, but rather changed its tactics to infiltration and subversion. Their efforts in this undertaking was spearheaded by an “unholy” trinity of the Fabian Society, the Frankfurt School, and an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci. All three have been nothing short of devastating in their efforts to destroy the West via cultural subversion. There is a lot to say about the work of the Fabian Society and the Frankfurt School, yet Gramsci is perhaps the most influential figure behind the West’s cultural rot and social decay. Gramsci differed with Marx’s tactic of confronting the West via military means. Instead he opted for an incremental approach of infiltrating the West’s cultural and political spheres of influence. Eighty years after Gramsci’s death and his strategy of “the long march through the institutions” has borne remarkable fruit—and not in a good way.

Another very interesting point about Gramsci was how he differed with Marx in their strategy to destroy the church. Marx believed that the church should be confronted through brute physical force with shutting down churches and imprisoning Christians. Gramsci on the other hand believed that the churches themselves could be infiltrated and used as an effective tool against Christianity itself and consequently Western society as a result.

The West therefore faces an ominous future. What was once a shining example of Christian civilization which brought individual liberty and freedom of speech/religion/inquiry to the masses has been gradually seduced to a proverbial prostitute riding an Islamic beast. The inebriated prostitute rides the beast in a show of defiance and overweening pride, arrogantly preaching its doctrine of multiculturalism and equality while being completely delusional that the beast she is riding will turn on her. The joyous honeymoon of the Left’s marriage with Islam will soon subside and will slowly but surely bring her to her ruin and inevitably burn her with fire.

Of course, the Left is completely oblivious to all this. They are in state of “political correctness paralysis” and are incapable of seeing the danger of the beast that they are riding on. Islam on the other hand are infinitely patient with their strategy. Their recipe of “cultural jihad” has been tried and tested, and one needs to look no further than their success with countries which have capitulated to Islam.

Lebanon used to be known as the “Paris” of the Middle East and the banking capital of the Middle East. It was the only Christian majority country in the Middle East. Yet, Lebanon gradually became lax with its Christian heritage and gradually slid into liberalism and embraced “tolerance” and “multiculturalism”, and Islam took advantage of their liberal ideals and from 1958 to 1990 Lebanon fell to Islam.

The same story with Iran. Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran was a very liberal democracy that emphasised tolerance and multiculturalism. The left wing Tudeh Party which was proudly Marxist in its political leanings openly embraced Muslim immigrants and encouraged Islam to flourish in the spirit of cultural diversity. Inevitably, Ayatollah Khomeini swept to power in the 1979 Iranian Revolution in an environment made possible by years of leftwing liberal policies. In 1982, the Islamist government of Iran had closed down the Tudeh newspaper, and purged Tudeh members from government ministries. The Islamists then arrested and imprisoned its leadership and later more than 10,000 members of the party. During February 1983, the leaders of the Tudeh Party were arrested and the Party disbanded, leaving Iran effectively a one-party state. From 1 May 1983 to May 1984 almost all the Tudeh leadership appeared in videos, first individually and then jointly in an October 1983 “roundtable discussion,” confessing to “treason”, “subversion”, “horrendous crimes”, praising Islam and proclaiming Islamic government’s superiority over atheistic Marxism-Leninism. As a result of these purges the party gradually collapsed, with a great number of members leaving the country into exile. It is likely many hundreds Tudeh prisoners were killed during the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners when thousands of leftist prisoners were killed. One report lists 90 Tudeh killed in just some blocks of Evin and Gohar Dasht prisons.

Egypt was a Christian country, but it too became tolerant, multicultural and a liberal democracy. Syria was a bastion of numerous Christian communities that have been in existence for thousands of years. Yet again, Islam crept in. Turkey was a democracy which embraced multiculturalism for many years and only earlier this year, via a staged coup, Recip Erdogan has solidified control and is paving the way for an Islamic republic in an effort to revive the Islamic Ottoman Empire.

Again, Islam uses the West’s liberal ideals against itself in very much the same fashion as Joseph Stalin once remarked, “When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope.” The Left naively thinks that the Islamists will join them in destroying Christian culture and then joyfully join them in their multicultural utopia. Well, as we have seen with Lebanon and Iran, the Left will be the first to go. The most sobering part of all this, is that this principle happened regionally in certain epochs of time, yet we are now witnessing this happening on a global scale. The West is ripe for God’s judgement and God is using Islam to do it.

The Left and its abominable agendas has brought on God’s judgement on the West, and Islam is the instrument of God’s judgement on the West. The Old Testament prophet Habakkuk complained that God wasn’t doing anything about the sin and injustices of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. God responded to Habakkuk by saying that he is doing something. The prophet replied with “Well, what? What are you doing about it?” And God said “I am raising up the Babylonians.” Habakkuk then protested God by saying he was doing too much! And in the same way, God is raising up Islam as an instrument of his judgement to judge the West, and if you know anything about God’s method of judgement, he always judges nations and individuals in degree of severity based on their revelation and understanding of the Truth. As the nation of Israel was judged harshly by God because they should’ve known better for knowing the truth (see Rom 3:2), so the nations will be judged so much more harshly if they were privileged to be raised on a foundation of Christianity and therefore should’ve known better.

Those who think that America is strong enough to withstand the onslaught of the Left and Islam are sadly deluded. The sins of America are piled up to heaven.

55 million abortions since Roe vs Wade

The promotion, celebration and global export of homosexuality.

The tsunami of pornography. Pornography (including child pornography) is getting darker and more extreme.

The destruction of gender from marriage and from society

I don’t say these things lightly, but with a heavy heart and a grieved spirit. Billy Graham was right when he said, “If God were to excuse America for her sin, he would have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

As an Australian, as someone from the outside looking in, I shudder at the thought of America losing her role as global leader. America’s was blessed by God because of her righteousness and Christian heritage and as such she has been a great blessing to the world. We’re living in a time of “Pax Americana” where America’s superpower status and Christian influence has brought stability and peace for the world. Yet, the sobering reality is this: If America goes down, so does the rest of us. Ronald Reagan aptly said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no other place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

If America goes down, there will be a plausible scenario of Russia invading Eastern Europe, China invading Taiwan and expanding into the South China Sea and beyond, North Korea invading South Korea, and the entire Muslim World will turn on Israel. The collapse of America will plunge the world into darkness reminiscent to the aftermath of the collapse of the Roman Empire.

As Christians we have a solemn responsibility to get right with God in repentance and to get down on our knees in prayer. Once we get up off our knees we need to get to action and mobilize the church into taking America back for God. I believe America has a window of opportunity of three and a half years until the next election in 2020. This election will be pivotal and could make or break America. Freedom is on the line. A Democrat win could will see all the nefarious agendas of the Left back into place, including open borders, mass Islamic refugee intake, the LGBT agenda and the abortion agenda forced upon churches and Christian institutions and much, much worse. There is so much at stake within the next three and a half years. Will you commit to prayer and mobilize to action?

Again, to quote Ronald Reagan on his prophetic insight, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

]]>http://www.danielsecomb.com/subversion-how-a-change-of-tactic-helped-the-left-and-islam-capture-the-west/feed/0472The Marxist Roots of the Left’s Australia Day Grievancehttp://www.danielsecomb.com/the-marxist-roots-of-the-lefts-australia-day-grievance/
http://www.danielsecomb.com/the-marxist-roots-of-the-lefts-australia-day-grievance/#commentsSat, 28 Jan 2017 00:42:21 +0000http://www.danielsecomb.com/?p=427Upfront, I need to clarify two very important points. Firstly, I understand that referring to “the Left” can mean a number of different things to different people. A very good summary of the shared values by the vast majority of Leftists can be found here (it should be noted that some of the points made are in an American context, yet for the most part, the observances are universal truisms). Yes, there are people who refer to themselves as ‘Leftist’ that don’t fit into the generalised description of what it means to be one, but they are the exception, not the rule.

Secondly, I need to emphasise that even though I love my country, I wouldn’t refer to myself as an over-the-top ‘Super Patriot’ as I am careful to put the kingdom of God before patriotism. In other words, my highest allegiance is to the Lord, not Australia.

Australia Day has come and gone and once again, the Left has done everything they can to bring division to this great country on our national day of celebrating unity and mateship. Earlier I was going over an article on the ‘Invasion Day’ protests in Melbourne on 26/1/17 (from the The Age) and an image taken from the rally caught my attention. Have a close look at it. This is the true face of the Left. I have added three green arrows to bring three things into particular focus.

Notice the words “SMASH THE STATE”

Notice the famous Marxist ‘fist’ sign which is the symbol for ‘socialist revolution’

Notice the girl with the ‘sickle and hammer’ red t-shirt advocating communism

It so unbelievable sad to see sections of the Aboriginal Community in bed with the Marxists. The Marxists are not interested in encouraging unity and healing among the Aboriginal Community, they are only interested in causing strife and division, opening old wounds and empowering their victim mentality. They are professional agitators and love nothing more to ‘rub the sore red’ and keep minorities in a vicious cycle of perpetual victimhood.

They are masters of framing narratives for their own agenda. As we have witnessed in the days leading up to Australia Day, they have indulged in historical revisionism and painted a distorted picture of our history and then bullied anyone who disagreed with it and called them a ‘racist’. This is also exactly what they have done with other ‘victims’ such as the Palestinians, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) movement, the Muslim community, the LGBT community and other minority groups. They each have their own twisted narrative that legitimises their ‘identity’ as a minority group, and demand rights based on that twisted narrative.

On Marxism, American economist Henry Hazlitt said, “The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.” In other words, hate the groups within society that have it better than you. They say, “How dare they have that nice car, that isn’t fair!” It’s a political philosophy based on envy of the so-called ‘privileged’ and it’s extremely seductive, deceitful and dangerous. It appeals both to the victim class and the predator class, hungry for power and control. Marxism, when implemented in Communist Russia, led to the deaths of over 100 million people. It shouldn’t surprise us that a political philosophy that focuses on SELF, ends in death.

Marxism can only flourish with a victimised people and Aboriginal grievance is an ideal candidate in their long term goal to ‘SMASH THE STATE’. Their strategy all along is to ‘divide and conquer’. In order to conquer (bring about the socialist revolution), they must first divide the people. In Karl Marx’s (co-authored with Friedrich Engels) seminal book ‘The Communist Manifesto’ he said that in order for the revolution to come, there must first be ‘class warfare’. He encouraged class warfare by getting the “proletariat” (working-class people) to rise up against the privileged “bourgeoisie” (the well-off capitalist class who owned most of society’s wealth and means of production). He was pitting the ‘haves’ vs ‘the have nots’ by instilling a mentality of victimhood in the ‘have nots’ (the proletariats). Marx said that the proletariat should rise up and demand “equality” with the bourgeoisie. Sound familiar? Marx believed that the “privilege” of the bourgeoisie needed to be eradicated and envisioned a egalitarian utopian society where all distinctions between the classes removed. Marx believed that after the bourgeoisie were done away with, equality would be achieved with mass redistribution. He saw that the state would take the responsibility to redistribute food, household goods, property and wealth. Taking from one (by force) and giving it to another. A fanciful world where victims and the under-privileged do not exist. No tall poppies. No one stands out from the crowd. Complete equality and uniformity. Although on the surface it appears that the Leftist activists are merely standing up for the grievances of the Aboriginals, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s simply a means to an end on the road to their socialist utopia.

A Greens staff member advocating for “full communism”.

A great example comes from the co-founder of the LGBT indoctrination program “Safe Schools”. Roz Ward, a hard core Marxist, pushed a hard-fought campaign convincing the Australian public that “Safe Schools” was a program to specifically address bullying in schools. Yet, she openly admitted in a leaked video that Safe Schools was NOT about stopping bullying, but rather about supporting gender and sexual diversity. Then last year Ward said of the Australian flag at the Victorian Parliament House, that “When that racist flag [referring to the Australian Flag] is replaced with a red one [meaning a red communist/marxist flag] then my work is complete.” Again, their so-called compassionate intentions are a smokescreen for their real agenda, which is to SMASH THE STATE.

Whereas the Left believe that ‘equality’ and socialism is the answer for the grievances in our society, those of us on the right believe that our rights come from God and not from man (the government). We believe that capitalism, personal responsibility and individual liberty, underpinned by Christianity is the answer. Capitalism has pulled more people out of poverty than any other economic system. Bringing people into FREEDOM from the endless cycle of playing the victim is a testimony to the Christian worldview and a hallmark of our free democratic society. Incidentally, Karl Marx said, “My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” He understood correctly that capitalism and Christianity are the two very things that have made Western nations strong, prosperous and successful.

The Christian worldview believes that all men are created in the image of God. It believes in objective morality and duties, independent from human opinion. Absolute right and wrong, and absolute good and evil. That man is inherently wicked and is in a state of perpetual enslavement in his degenerate state outside of a relationship with God. That only through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross does man find redemption, forgiveness of sins, and reconciliation with God. The idea that believing in a transcendent Truth in the person of Jesus Christ does one truly find freedom from moral, emotional, phycological and spiritual enslavement. Jesus said, “When you know the Truth, the Truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) He also said, “He who the Son sets free shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36) This is the true essence of freedom. The fertile soil of human flourishment.

Although sections of the Aboriginal community may see the ‘rightwing conservative white fella’ as their enemy, the real enemy of the Aboriginal people are those on the Left, those who keep them enslaved in a endless hellhole of victimisation. Even though there has been blights on the history of the church in its interactions with the Aborigines, people often forget the honourable things that the church has done. Critics of the church often forget that it was the church that lobbied the government to overturn the law that deemed Aborigines as ‘fauna’ and not human. Of course the church isn’t perfect, but many of the early initiatives in helping and reaching out to the Aborigines came through the church.

One thing I know for sure, is that this fight is far from over. Next year I can guarantee with all certainty that the Left will again try to take it up another level and will double-down in their efforts to bully Australians into accepting their distorted view of Australian history and coerce us to loathe over ourselves with self pity. We cannot afford to ignore these toxic viewpoints, because if we continue to give them free airtime in the public square, it will fester and continue to sway those who aren’t familiar with Australian history and will only bring more division and disunity.

Remember, there was high optimism in the lead up to Kevin Rudd saying “sorry” to the stolen generation in 2008. Many thought that would be the thing that would finally bring healing to aggrieved Aboriginal community. Yet, its now 2017 and the grievances are still there. The victim mentality will not go away, especially with the Left empowering and exacerbating this toxic mentality.

Healing will come when the church gets on its face to cry out to God for a ‘great awakening’ among the Aboriginal communities. The answer is always the gospel. Check out these remarkable life-transforming testimonies from Aboriginals who found their freedom in Christ.

This is the very hope for the Aboriginal Community. Government programs can not come close to the life-changing power of the gospel.

Australia Day is for ALL OF US, irrespective of our culture or background. Convicts never invaded Australia, they were actually the first stolen generation, dragged here against their will. We understand that there are Aboriginals that want it changed, but (unbeknownst to most of us) there are others who don’t. The overwhelming majority of Australians understand Australia Day to be a day of UNITY and celebrating what Australia got right, not what it got wrong. A day of thanksgiving to God for one of the ‘luckiest’ and most blessed nations in the world. Let’s keep it that way.